Juan Manuel Bernal – MRQE

“Capadocia”

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Capadocia is a Mexican HBO Latin America television series. It started on March 2, 2008 and its second season was planned for 2010.

Jeremías, El

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

El Jeremías is a heartwarming comedy film about family love and the hard choices that come with opportunity. Set in Sonora Mexico, the film tells the story of Jeremías an eight year old who finds out he is a gifted child and initiates a journey of self discovery. When an opportunistic physiologist makes contact with Jeremías, a new world of experiences open up to him but at the expense of being away from the family he loves. Jeremías must choose between this exciting but lonely new world he finds himself in or returning home to his loving family.

Obediencia perfecta

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The fictional Father Ángel de la Cruz is based on Legion of Christ founder Marcial Maciel, whose long history of child abuse was not addressed until 2006 and only publicly acknowledged in 2009. But director Luis Urquiza chooses to structure his film through the largely uncomprehending, wondering eyes of 13-year-old Julián, who travels from the arms of his loving pastoral family into the austere, hallowed halls of the seminary. Singling out the boy as his intimate disciple, installing him in his palatial private quarters and redubbing him Sacramento Santos, Father Ángel begins Julians instruction into the mysteries of perfect obedience, whose cardinal rule is: Never question a superiors actions.

Fantástico mundo de Juan Orol, El

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Mexicos half-forgotten B-movie master, involuntary surrealist Juan Orol (18971988), receives a pitch-perfect tribute in this deft, irresistible love letter to a self-made man of showbiz whose career spanned half a century and nearly 60 films. Abetted by an all-pro cast, del Amos brilliant interpretation of Orols life exudes a droll underdog charm, and almost every frame is an infectious homage to the golden age of cinema, the wiles of memory, and the art of fantasy.

Asalto al cine

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The story of four teenagers: Negus, Chale, Sapo and Chata. Childhood friends living in public housing in a rundown area of Mexico City, search to trump idleness. They toy with the idea of robbing a movie theatre. Afflicted by their past and present stance, each find the motivation to complete the deed. The adventure pushes them to face their own realities and jeopardizes the only valuable possession: friendship

Chicogrande

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Butch Fenton, major of American army, comes for Villa’s head and he’s gonna get it. The “Punitive Expedition” proved to be the last major campaign of the U.S. Cavalry. Mexican revolution is the first social movement of the century.

Cansada de besar sapos

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A romantic comedy about a young interior decorator who, as a result of a romantic disappointment, becomes the female counterpart of Don Juan. The misadventures of the manizer make her rediscover the value of love.

Sin ton ni Sonia

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Orlando (Juan Manuel Bernal) is a neurotic dubbing director of series B that desqui-ta of all your frustrations and anger with their coworkers. Orlando lives with Sonia (Mariana Gaja), a woman “new age” in quest for inner peace. He, in crisis, stifled by the love of So-nia and tempted by the novelty of another woman, can not desci-FRAR the complicated language of life as a couple of young people, and going from flower to flower revealing its inability of being alone. On the other hand we have to Mauritius (José María Yazpik), a young and awkward to relate hermit who loves and despises while René (Cecilia Suárez), a beautiful woman “postmodern”

La Habitación azul

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A couple meet each other often in a motel room.

Cilantro y perejil

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A female documentary director’s latest project is to capture her sister’s marital difficulties on film in hopes of shedding light on the travails of modern romance. Ostensibly, the film aspires to view the problems from a contemporary female perspective, but the story’s end belies its basis in traditional Mexican morality.